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The Progressives Guide to Holiday Gift-Giving
Once again, we've assembled an assortment of gift-giving options that span the gamut of DIA's members and their respective causes. There are many awesome gifts available through our community that you can feel good about giving. The gift-giving ideas are seperated into easy-to-navigate categories. Make sure to visit them all!
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09:54 AM Nov 02, 2007 -
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Happy Halloween: Mind the Werewolves
It's spooky that a site like ExecutedToday.com even has enough material to exist. But did you notice that there won't be any new dates from the U.S. for a while? Not that our fair country is exactly free of medieval superstitions in our modern courts. Satanic murder case, "pretty much a witch hunt"? Read more...
09:36 AM Oct 31, 2007 -
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Photo of the Week
This week's photo comes from a solidarity event in Seattle to raise awareness for DIA members US Campaign for Burma and other Burma-focused groups.
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11:14 AM Oct 30, 2007 -
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Number One With a Bullet
Two DIA groups rank among the "Ten Most Dangerous Organizations in America" as reckoned by Family Security Matters. Congratulations to:-
#8 CodePink (5-1, 3-1 Pac-10), "nothing more than a far- Left group of loony, hypocritical women."
#5 Center for American Progress (6-0, 4-0 Big East), doing "far less thinking than it does smearing and misleading" off its upset of the seventh-ranked ACLU.
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08:55 PM Oct 27, 2007 -
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Remembering Paul Wellstone
It was five years ago today when the airplane carrying Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia, two campaign staffers and the two pilots, crashed near Eveleth Minnesota. It's one of the few moments in my life I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. I was still in College at the University of Nebraska in my dorm room when my mother called. She, audibly upset, told me that the plane carrying Senator Wellstone has crashed. It felt like a personal loss. On my desk laid my absentee ballot, with Paul's name on it. I never got to meet the Senator, my mother had on a couple of occasions. She was always impressed that he always remembered her name, a trait many others had noticed in the Senator. Senator Wellstone was genuinely interested in the people he met and they made an impression upon him. Read more...
07:18 PM Oct 25, 2007 -
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